Image is from this article, of protestors in Mexico tearing down a steel fence.
While military, economic, and covert pressure on Venezuela and nearby countries in South America proper continues to mount, a similar process is occurring against Mexico, currently under the leadership of the very popular Sheinbaum, who has generally followed the footsteps of AMLO in terms of policies.
While figures in the Trump administration have made statements to the effect of wishing to bomb Mexican territory, internal pressure within Mexico is rather hard to generate when the government is doing generally positive things for people. As such, protests - comically denoted “Gen Z protests” despite young people being a vanishingly small proportion - have arisen in Mexico, very obviously astroturfed by pro-US and anti-Sheinbaum interests. The first protest, on November 15th, gathered less than 20,000 people, while the second, on November 20th, gathered perhaps 200. Article headlines suggesting that Mexico was “on the verge of collapse” have proven rather sensational and wishcast-y.
While it’s easy to poke fun at these farces (I certainly am), it’s important to keep in mind that soft coups have long been part of the American strategy in Latin America, and with unlimited money and many resources to throw at a project, even incompetent forces can eventually create enough chaos that it can make the ruling president or party feel forced to resign. Such eventualities are certainly not inevitable, and even weak states can provide enough resistance to force the US to try a hard coup instead, with outright bombing campaigns and covert military operations. Cuba has provided perhaps the best example in the western hemisphere of how such plots can be subverted with enough national support (e.g. the hundreds of times the CIA tried to kill/maim Castro, plus the Bay of Pigs debacle), but you do have to be willing to take extraordinary measures to do this - the sorts of measures figures like Chile’s Allende did not take in the 1970s, and the measures Venezuela’s Maduro appears to be taking right now. We shall see what path Sheinbaum takes.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
I recently read something interesting from the Chinese left-leaning commentators. People have pointed out that since the second half of 2025, China has abstained 5 times in UNSC votes and all of them related to ME/NA. Even more interesting is that all of them happened in the recent sessions, after the Trump-Xi meeting.
UNSC Resolution 2797 on October 31st on Western Sahara, which practically handed Western Sahara to Morocco. Passed 11-0. China, Russia and Pakistan (current member) abstained. Algeria (current member) did not participate, as expected.
UNSC Resolution 2799 on November 6th on Syria, which lifted sanctions against ISIL and Al-Qaida. Passed 14-0. China abstained.
UNSC Resolution 2801 on November 14th on Yemen, which extended sanctions against the Houthis. Passed 13-0. China and Russia abstained.
UNSC Resolution 2803 on November 17th on Gaza, which allowed establishing the ISF in Gaza. Passed 13-0. China and Russia abstained.
UNSC Resolution 2804 on November 25th on Libya, which extended the arms embargo imposed on Libya. Passed 13-0. China and Russia abstained.
That’s 5 out of 5 for the US in terms of imposing its strategic ambitions on the region.
While Russia is actively withdrawing its strategic interests from ME/NA due to the extended war in Ukraine, China has also quietly abstained from filling the gap.
Some are suspecting that the US is enticing Russia with a Ukraine peace deal that would be favorable to Russia, and China with its latest trade negotiations that promises to restore the status quo.
I don’t know how the US response to Taiwan/Japan comes into play, but some people are speculating that this could be to exchange for China’s abstention from the US actions in Venezuela.
I think it’s just that the US ruling class is completely compromised by its genocidal dog and will prioritize the safety of the Zionazi project over its own wider geopolitical aims. I don’t know what china gets out of this though because China is the main geopolitical rival and the one that the the US wants to eliminate. Once the US has achieved its goals in West Asia what’s next? Probably China
China “wins” by letting the US understand that they cannot decouple from each other. You win by showing your opponent that it is too costly, both politically and economically, to start a fight with you.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the infrastructure investment-led growth phase is already coming to an end in China, if not ended already. Construction of new high-speed rails and subways are being halted due to over-investment and lack of revenue. Since most public transits are public services so they are not supposed to make a profit, many rail/subway companies also double as REITs to profit from the rising land value. Now that the property prices are plunging, these companies are under severe financial distress and unable to service their massive amount of debt.
Harbin, Qingdao and Yinchuan have just been denied their subway expansion plans last week, and other projects under construction are being halted. This signals the end of rail/subway expansion in China, especially for Tier 2/3 cities and below. In fact, back in 2021, the government had already stopped approving constructing subway systems in cities that do not already have them, so China’s subways will stay static at 54 cities for the foreseeable future. Luoyang was the last city to get onboard the last train (no pun intended) back in 2021 and managed to squeeze out two operational lines from that.
OK maybe I digressed a bit, but the point is that China is now becoming even more dependent on export, since the Dual Circulation Strategy proposed in 2020 has failed to spur domestic consumption. So, the US consumer market becomes more important than ever. If the US goes into recession like it did in 2008, it will send a massive shock wave throughout the world and adversely affect the exporter economies.
If China can get the US to keep importing from them, it’s a win because it keeps the export industries alive and the workers employed. There has been major push towards high tech manufacturing but those cannot possibly sustain the economy of such massive population.
Of course, the other way out is like I said, China needs to give up its neoliberal obsession of balancing the budget and starts deficit spend to drive domestic consumption.
This was in the Witkoff transcripts, Russia postponed the first Russian-Arabic summit and let the Gaza ceasefire go through without opposition for a reason:
YU: I am ok. Congratulations my friend.
SW: Thank you.
YU: You made a great job. Just a great job. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you.
SW: Thank you Yuri and thanks for your support. I know your country supported it and I thank you.
YU: Yes, yes, yes. Yes. You know that’s why we suspend the organization of first Russian-Arabic summit.
SW: Yes.
YU: Yeah, because we think that you are making the real job there in the region